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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Hoon-Kyun Na, Dong-Cheol Seo, Hee-Jin Choi, Myeun Kwon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 237-240
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963450
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Five line integrated spectra are obtained from Hanbit mirror plasma using optical chords installed in the horizontal direction of central cell chamber.
In this work, we describe the spectroscopic method to obtain the local spectra in the radial direction by applying the deconvolution method to the five line integrated spectra. Among several fitting methods, the deconvolution fitting is well known as the most effective one.[1]
From these, the local intensity profiles and ion temperature are obtained. In order to compensate for the instrumental broadening of spectrometer, a slit function obtained from the low pressure mercury line 253.65 nm is used. The C III 229.68 nm line from the Hanbit central cell plasma is selected as sample data. We applied the deconvolution fitting method using a slit function to eliminate the instrumental broadening.